# Improve server performance

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/improve-server-performance/242845>\
**Category:** NGINX\
**Created:** [August 2, 2015, 5:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/improve-server-performance/242845 "2015-08-02T05:14:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sadaf\_N](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/858c86/32.png) [@Sadaf\_N](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Sadaf_N)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2015, 5:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/improve-server-performance/242845/1 "2015-08-02T05:14:25Z")

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Hi, I am hosting a couple of wordpress sites on a very light VPS with  
1vCPU, 512Mb Ram and 10Gb SSD. The performance is not very impressive.  
Are caching, using gzip, etc., good means to improve the performance of  
my VPS despite the fact that it only has one vCPU and 512 Mb of ram.

Thank you

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**Author:** ![lo\_pan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@lo\_pan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lo_pan)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2015, 6:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/improve-server-performance/242845/2 "2015-08-02T06:11:02Z")

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caching - will improve performance . Look for caching at the opcode  
level  
and fastcgi\_cache along with the associated wordpress plugin to  
invalidate  
cache

gzip - will be taxing again on your single vCPU

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**Author:** ![lo\_pan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@lo\_pan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lo_pan)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2015, 6:45am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/improve-server-performance/242845/3 "2015-08-02T06:45:00Z")

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Anoop A. wrote in post #1177127:

> caching - will improve performance . Look for caching at the opcode  
> level  
> and fastcgi\_cache along with the associated wordpress plugin to  
> invalidate  
> cache
> 
> gzip - will be taxing again on your single vCPU

Thank you very much. So what should I do is to enable cache and disable  
gzip right?